[PATCH] fs: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in afs/security.c

Monam Agarwal monamagarwal123 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 14:41:31 EDT 2014


This patch replaces rcu_assign_pointer(x, NULL) with RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL)

The rcu_assign_pointer() ensures that the initialization of a structure       
is carried out before storing a pointer to that structure. 
And in the case of the NULL pointer, there is no structure to initialize. 
So, rcu_assign_pointer(p, NULL) can be safely converted to RCU_INIT_POINTER(p, NULL)

Signed-off-by: Monam Agarwal <monamagarwal123 at gmail.com>
---
 fs/afs/security.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/security.c b/fs/afs/security.c
index 8d01042..42f7cf3 100644
--- a/fs/afs/security.c
+++ b/fs/afs/security.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ void afs_clear_permits(struct afs_vnode *vnode)
 
 	mutex_lock(&vnode->permits_lock);
 	permits = vnode->permits;
-	rcu_assign_pointer(vnode->permits, NULL);
+	RCU_INIT_POINTER(vnode->permits, NULL);
 	mutex_unlock(&vnode->permits_lock);
 
 	if (permits)
-- 
1.7.9.5




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